Definition of "gambrel" in İngilizce

noun

1. The hind leg of a horse; the hock.

2. (chiefly historical and obsolete outside dialects) A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.

3. A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.

4. (architecture) A gambrel roof.

verb

1. To truss or hang up using a gambrel.